{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/686e29c1e52066772f7462df/69feec6b45d5752715d400bc?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Election 2026: What crushed LDF in Kerala? | Let Me Explain 134 | Pooja Prasanna","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/686e29c1e52066772f7462df/1778306541968-e89658f9-e6fd-4104-9823-b49f0d3d1bf5.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Kerala’s 2026 Assembly results may look like a return to its familiar pattern of alternating power between the LDF and UDF. But look closer, and this isn’t just a routine correction.</p><p><br></p><p>The LDF fell from 99 seats to 35. The CPI(M) dropped to 26, its lowest in years. 13 ministers lost. Strongholds flipped. Even Dharmadam saw unusual vulnerability.</p><p><br></p><p>But this wasn’t just anger or anti-incumbency. It also looked like a targeted correction, with CPI(M) rebels winning, questions around internal democracy, leadership style, and a sense that the party had moved away from what it stood for.</p><p><br></p><p>From debates on ideology and voter shifts to gaps between governance claims and lived experience, multiple factors fed into this verdict.</p><p>So what really changed in Kerala’s 2026 election?</p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Like Pooja’s LME? Support the show: </em></strong><a href=\"https://rzp.io/rzp/support-lme\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>https://rzp.io/rzp/support-lme</em></strong></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Like our journalism? Become a subscriber: </em></strong><a href=\"https://www.thenewsminute.com/subscription\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>https://www.thenewsminute.com/subscription</em></strong></a></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Newslaundry .com"}